This is an old Bluegrass standard that I used to sit down and play a with wonderful Dobro musician I knew. He said that he liked my picking, (ha ha), I knew I wasn't any good, but back then I'd take complements where I could find them. This guy, who's name was Ken Harmon, was pretty good with that Dobro of...

Sometimes I find myself wishing I could play the fiddle. Most of the instrumentals I play on the guitar. (and when I say play I'm being generous), are fiddle tunes. My father was a fiddler and I used to chord for him. Thus old fiddle tunes reside deep in my brain. Still I am not a fiddle player like my dad and the best I...

One of the many bluegrass/gopel songs that I learned when I started learning a Bluegrass repitoir. Bill Monroe's 'Angels Rock Me To Sleep ' is well written lyricaly and pleasing to the ear musicaly. it is such an excelent balance.that it is no wonder it became so popular in its day. If you haven't heard this song befor please give it a listen and I think that you'll see what I mean.

The song 'With Body And Soul' is a lovely bluegrass offering originaly recorded by, Bluegrass Legend, Bill Monroe. This is, I admit, a more countryfied cover because I am at heart a country musician. Bluegrass connoisseurs will not the lack of minor notes through out the tune. That is one of the major differences between early country and bluegrass. Bluegrass musicians where quick to catch on to the...

Some years back I joined a jam group that themed itself around bluegrass music. As I was just a good old country boy and not particularly versed in bluegrass I set about to learn a new repitoir. I found that while bluegrass was often quite monotonous Bluegrass gospel was quite another story.